your year at UTI counts towards your ASE but u need 2 years of work or 1 year of work and 1 year at uti. i know a little metal fab from HS but i want to learn paint and body too but wytech's closest campus is in PA UTI has one 20 miles from me its more conveinet but i want to get every class i can take and apply my self so much but i will call wyotech and find out the pros and cons of both schools.but i really want to take a year in school working on my z's engine and doing it for free i have a custom shop i can work for in MA but i want the training first. its not about the $$ for me (i could have used my GI to be a x-ray tech and make 80k a year to start , i also interned at the FBI but i dont love doing that kind of work ) i love cars and thats what i want to do, but thanks for the details about UTI. what campus did u go to? NC? u said u did nissan right?